Window shade and curtain adjuster.



No. 859,148. PATENTED JULY 2,1907. T. SZOZE'RBIGKI.

WINDOW SHADE AND CURTAIN ADJUSTER.

APPLICATION 21mm AUG. 6, 1906.

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TOMASZ SZOZERBIOKI, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. i

WINDOW SHADE AND CURTAIN ADJUSTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2, 1907.

Application filed August 6, 1906. Serial No. 329,286-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TOMASZ SzcznRBroKr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window Shade and Curtain Adjusters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is more especially intended and adapted to be manipulated after being properly secured in any suitable manner to a window frame for the purpose of easily and readily permitting the window-shade roller or curtain rod to be raised or lowered and speedily and accurately positioned as desired without considerable difiiculty and delay.

The object of the present invention is to construct a device capable of doing away with all the difficulty usually experienced in arranging curtains in their desired position, and consists, furthermore, in the features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation showing the device attached to a window frame; Fig. 2 a side elevation thereof; and Fig. 3 a transverse section taken on line 33 of Fig. l.

The window-shade and curtain adjuster 1 is adapted to be secured in any suitable manner to a window frame 2, and consists essentially of a bed or base plate 3, intermediate rails 4, and top rails 5 so positioned and arranged that longitudinal slots 6 are located therein. Within the slots or recesses 6 vertically disposed bars or rails 7 are adapted to be inserted and capable of being manipulated back and forth and firmly and permanently secured therein by thumb nuts 8.

At or near the bottom of these vertically disposed slots 6 is a cross or guard bar 9 which is adapted to be swung back and forth so that when desired the vertical movement of the rods or bars 7 may be limited. These vertic-ally disposed rods or bars are connected respectively with a curtain rod 10 and shade roller 11, as usual.

In use it will be readily seen that the position of the shade roller and curtain rod can be altered by simply manipulating the thumb nuts 8 which permits the vertically disposed rods or bars 7 to be suitably positioned.

Although in the accompanying drawing the window-shade and cru'tain regulator is placed at about the center of the window frame, it is obvious that the same may be located at any place thereon or extended the In actual use it has been found both convenient and desirable to have measurements of some kind disclosed on the exterior of the attachment in order that the exact position desired may be secured with the least possible trouble.

What I regard as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a combined window shade and curtain adjuster, the combination of a pair of outer side bars, both bars vertically adjustable independent of each other, a cross rail secured to the upper end of both outer side bars, a pair of inner side bars, both bars vertically adjustable independent of each other and of the outer side bars, a shade roller mounted on both inner side bars at their upper ends. a threaded stem at the lower end of each of the four side bars, a thumb nut for each threaded stem, two companion guide plates one guide plate for each side of the window frame, each guide plate having two passages with a slotted wall for each passage, each slotted passage receiving aside bar and threaded stem, for the advance of the thumb nut of each threaded stem to impinge the slotted wall and retain the side bar in an adjusted position, substantially as described.

2. In a combined window shade and curtain adjuster, the combination of a pair of outer side bars, both bars vertically adjustable independent of each other, a cross rail secured to the upper end of both outer side bars, a pair of inner side bars, both bars vertically adjustable in dependent of each other and of the outer side bars, a shade roller mounted on both inner side bars at their upper ends, a threaded stemat the lower end of each of the four side bars, a thumb nut for each threaded stem, two companion guide plates one guide plate for each side of the window frame, each guide plate having two passages with a slotted wall for each passage, each slotted passage receiving a side bar and threaded stem for the advance of the thumb nut of each threaded stem to impinge the slotted wall and retain the side bar in an adjusted position, and a stop at the lower end of each slotted passage for limiting the descent of the side bars, substantially as described. I

3. In a combined window shade and curtain adjuster. the combination of a pair of outer side bars, one bar for each side of the window-frame, both bars vertically adjustable independently of each other, a cross rail secured to the upper end of both side bars in advance of the forward plane of the side bars, a pair of inner side bars, both bars vertically adjustable independent of each other and of the outer side bars, a shade roller mounted on both inner side bars at their upper ends, a threaded stem at the lower end of each of the four side bars, a thumb nut for each threaded stem, two companion guide plates one guide plate for each side of the windowframe, each guide plate having two passages with a slotted wall for each passage, each slotted passage receiving a side bar and threaded stem for the advance of the thumb nut of each threaded stem to impinge the slotted wall and retain the side bar in an adjusted position, substantially as described.

4. In a combined window shade and curtain adjuster, the combination of a pair of outer side bars, both bars vertically adjustable independent of each other, a cross rail secured to the upper end of both outer side bars, a

pair of inner side bars, both bars vertically adjustable in dependent of each other' and of the outer side bars, a shade roller mounted onbothinner side bars at their upper ends, a threaded stem at the lower end of each of the four side bars, a thumb nut for each threaded stem, two

companion guide plates one guideplate for each side of the window frame, each guide plate having two passages with a slotted Wall for each passage and havingon the front wall duplicate graduations, each slotted passage re-- ceiving a side bar and threaded stem for the advance of 10 the thumb nut of each threaded stem to impinge the slotted 'wall and retain the side bar in an adjusted position, substantially as described.

TOMASZ SZCZERBICKI.

Witnesses WALKER BANNING', CHAS. F. CooKn. 

